Direction-signal for automobiles.



" citizen ofthe United State'sof Specification of Letters Patent.

CHARLEY G. SHAUCK, OF DES4 MOINES, IOWA.

Application -led November 11, 1916. Serial No. 130,793.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEY G. SHAUCK, America, and resident of'Des MoinesPolk county, Iowa, have-invented a new and useful Direction- Signal for Automobiles, of'which the following is a specification.

The'object of this invention is to provide improved means for indicating through suitable visualzsignals the direction of contemplated turning of a vehicle in either direction relative to a straight line of advance.

A further object of this invention is. to provide improved means for indicating through suitable visual signals proJected. to the front and rear and at angles relative thereto, of contemplated turning of a vehicle in either direction from a straight line of advance.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for indicating through suitable visualv signals pro]ected both to thefront and rear of contemplated stopping or advancing of av vehicle.

'A further object of this invention 1s to provide an improved iconstruction for ai lamp signaling'device.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangementy and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- ,K

Figure 1 is a diagram illustrating oneq form of wiring for my improved signal.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of one form of my improved lamp device. YFig. 3 is a 'c rossf section on the indicated line of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an elevation, partly in section, of the device shown in Figs. 2 and 3. i

In the construction of the apparatus as shown the numeral 10 designates a frame preferably made of bar metal and comprising a central body portion and end portions at right angles to the ends of the body portion. A casing is mounted on the frame 10 and is comprised preferably of two members; namely, a body and a door.l The body preferably is made `of a sing1e\piece of sht metal by stamping and bending and 'coinprises a back 11 arranged. parallel and in contact with the outer face of the body of n the frame 10, top and bottom end members 12, 13 bent at right angles to ends of the back 11 and extending parallel with and in contact with outer faces of the ends of the frame 10vand centralarms 11, 15 extending x flanges 20, 21and vof theframe 10.

at right angles from the central portion of the body 11 and parallel with each other. Marginal portions 16,-17 of the ybody 11 and marginal portions 18, 19 of the top and bottom end portions of the casing are bent into planes parallel with each other to form flanges which extend across and lproject slightly beyond the body and ends'respectively of the frame 10, thus forming apertured parallel sides for-the casing. End portions of the arms 14,' 15 are bent inwardly to form flanges 20, 21. A partition 22 is arranged horizontally in and centrallyy of the frame 10 and one end portion of said partition is secured to the central portion of the body of saidframe. AThe flanges 16, 17, 18 andV 19 and the arms 14, 15 are) spaced from the side margins of the frame 10. Plates 23, 24, 25, 26 of glass are mountedbetween the Hanges 16, 17, 18, 19 and the side margins of the frame 10. The yplates 23 and 25 ,are parallel with each other and spaced apart and preferably are colored pink orV red and are located above the partition The plates 24 and 26 with each other and spaced apart and preferably are colored vgreen and arranged below the partition 22. Fastening devices such as stovev bolts 27 are mounted through and connect the arms 14, 15 and draw said arms toward side margins of the partition 22. The fastening devices also may extend through .the glassI plates if desired.l The outer end portion of the end 12 of the casing is bent downwardly to form a flange 28 which extends across andis spaced from the extremity of the upper end of the frame 10. mounted to form a A door 29 is slidingly wall of the casing and isvconined bythe 28 in contact with the ends of the frame 10 and the outer end of the partition 22. The outer ends a' so may be bent inwardly across the plane of the door`29 to confine said door in sliding relation with the extremity of the lower end A roll30 isformed on the lower end of the door 29 and serves as a' handle for manual operation of the door. The end members 12, 13 ofthe casing are secured to extremities of the ends of the frame 10 by screws 31, 32 and the latter screwalso isemployed to 'pivot extend beneath and closed positions at times. and below the ceiitral Lamp sockets 34,

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of the anges 19 a button 33 adapted to support the door 29 in are mounted-.on and extend above portion of the partition QQ and lamp bulbs 36, 3l' are removably mounted in said sockets. A clamp 38 is fixed to and projects laterally from the central portion of the body of the frame 10 and casing 11 and is adapted to engage and support vthe device on a suitable carrier -sucli as a frame bar 39 of the windshield of an automobile. It is to be understood, however, that the carrier may be any suitable supporting member' of any vehicle, such as a top prop or bow oli a buggy or a superposed frame of any kind.

T he glass plates may be uncolored or plain and the bulbs 36, 3l be diii'erently colored so as to exhibit various colored lights through said plates, hence the matter ot' coloring the vplates or bulbs is one of selection within the scope of my invention.

T he signal preferably shown in Fig. 1 in which a battery in cirductor l0 leading from the other pole and branching into two conductors all, 42. rl`he conductor l1 extends through a lamp 37 at one side and through a lamp 36 at the other side and thence is grounded in a suitable manner such as on the :trame of the vehicle to which the signal is applied. rl`he conductor il is provided with a switch 43. rl`he conductor 4:2 extends'through a lamp` 37 on one side and through a 36 on the other side and thence to ground as desired. The

conductor l2 is provided with a switch irl. In practical use of the device it'inay be assumed that normally the lamps 36, 37, ar-

ranged in pairs in the devices as shown on opposite sides of a vehicle and visible to the front and rear and at angles relative to the line of advance, are not illuminated. Then it is desired to turn the vehicle to the left the switch -ll is closed, thus establishing a circuit through a green. lamp 3? (indicating safety to the right) and through a red lamp 36 (indicating danger to the left). When it isdesired to turn the vehicle to the right theV switch i3 is closed,tli us establishin a circuit through a green lamp at the left (indicating safety) anda. red lamp at the right (indica-ting danger). ediately upon e'ecting a turn in either direction the switch last used is opened, thus discontinuing the illumination. By this means warning or signal is given to'any person obt devices either in front or gineans for supporting said frame, an opaque' 1 serving the lainp at the rear of the vehicle on which they are line with or laterally removed to some' extent travel of the vehicle, of intended turning oit the vehicle in either direct-ion, thus 'ving good and sucient notice of theturning to permit one meetingxor following it to act on the signalas given and avoid confusion or collision.

s When the driver ot a vehicle equipped y is illuminated by anv electric current from a system arranged ask from the path ot.

Lamette vbe apprehended from the vehicle thus equipped. i

Or the arrangement of the wiring system and switches may be such as to exhibit red lights on both sides of the vehicle as a signal of stopping or green lights on both sides of the vehicle as a signal of cont-inuance in a straight path.

The bulbs 36, 37 may be removed and replaced or substituted by others through manual operation thereof within the casing when the door 29 is opened by downward withdrawal from the casing.

It is to be understood that the sockets 3l,

35 are suitably connected into the electric cirin Fig. 1 by wircuits shown in diagram frame of the lamp ing through the casing or devices,

lt. also is to be understood that the lamp devices may be mounted in any suitable location, depending vupon the select-ion of the user.

ldo not desire to be understood as limiting myself to the details of construction and wiring herein shown and described, as the saine may be modified in many particulars without departing from the spirit of my invention. y

ll claim as my invention- 1. il signal lamp, comprising al frame,

a clamp thereon adapted to engage a support, a partition on said frame, an apertured casing inclosing said frame andppartition, glass plates in some of the vapertures ot' said casing, said plates being-arranged parallel with each other and' also being arranged on opposite the plates on one side of the planel of said partition being alike in color and of a color didering from the plates on the opposite side of the plane of vsa-id partition, and

lamps carried by and on opposite sides of 1 said partition, together with a door adapted to close the 'remaining aperture of said casing.

2. A signal lamp, comprising a frame,

sides of said partition. 1;

ingly mounted in the remaining aperture of extending through side portions of said said casing, i casing and adapted to contract the same and 3. A signal lamp, com rising a frame, an draw the lates toward thel frame' and pari opaque partition centra 1y located on said tition, anc a door slidin 1y mounted in the 5 frame, an apertured casing inclosing said remaining aperture of t e casing, together 15 frame and partition and spaced from the `Withllamps between the plates and on opmargins thereof, glass plates mounted in posite sides of said partition. some of said apertures and slidingly en- Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this gaged between said casing and side margins twenty third day of October, 1916.

10 of said frame and partition, clamping bolts CHAR-LEY G. SHAUCK. 

